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Let the Good Times Grohl: Dave Grohl Talks 'Sound City: Real to Reel'

Posted 05/06/2013 at 10:19am | by Alan di Perna

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Dave Grohl’s Sound City: Real to Reel is many things: a feature-length documentary that was the buzz of this year’s Sundance festival, a star-studded CD packed with great tunes and a series of historic concerts.

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Slayer continue their quest for global domination with World Painted Blood, their annihilating new album. Jeff Hanneman and Kerry King talk about working hard, playing fast and living life on the dark side.

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Posted 05/06/2013 at 10:19am | by John Katic

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Former Metallica bassist Jason Newsted walked away from one of the world's biggest bands to explore his own music. In the process, he worked with the progressive metal veterans Voivod and played with Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi and many others.

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Slayer's Jeff Hanneman talks to Guitar World about the early days of the band.

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Guitar World counts down the 100 greatest Metallica songs.

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Guide to the Songs and Instruments Featured on The Beatles' 'Rubber Soul' Album

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Just as an overworked Lennon and McCartney came up with an overnight masterpiece in 1964 with "A Hard Day's Night" amid a stressful filming and recording schedule, the Beatles responded to time constraints in 1965 with another monumental step forward called Rubber Soul.

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Los Angeles-based classic metal outfit White Wizzard formed in 2007. After enduring several lineup changes, the band finally seems to have settled on solid ground. Their early albums — High Speed GTO and Over The Top — treated fans to some solid, catchy old-school metal. The next album, Flying Tigers, took the band into new musical territory. Their upcoming release, The Devil's Cut, sees them progress even further with scorching lead guitar work.

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The '3 Chord Songbook': Play 50 Hits with Only Three Chords

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At last: rock made easy! The 3 Chord Songbook contains 50 top tunes playable after learning only three chords on the guitar: G, C and D.

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Epiphone has been an eye-catching brand pretty much from the company’s inception 140 years ago. In the early part of the 20th century, Epiphone’s ornate, stylish New York City guitars provided stiff competition for the more staid models coming out of Gibson’s Kalamazoo, Michigan, plant. So it is ironic that Gibson ended up owning the Epiphone brand, which it purchased in 1957.

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